Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist
Lately I've been reading through Pierce Brown's Red Rising series (which is fantastic by the way) but those books are pretty heavy emotionally so I've been trying to space them out with months in between to decompress. The good thing about this on/off cycle is that it's been pushing me to get deeper into my TBR list than I usually do.....which brought us to Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist. The first thing to note is a publication and edition issue: This edition is an expanded Author's Preferred Text. From the forward, we find out that the "First Two Books" in this series were originally published as a single volume that was cut down to size and released as MAGICIAN sans subtitle. Ten years later, Feist recieved permission to rework some or most of the deletions back into the book, split it into two, and then republished the book(s) in two volumes MAGICIAN: APPRENTICE and MAGICIAN:MASTER. The reason for this note is that I've never read the ...